Category Archives: honesty

Year By Year The Truth Never Changes

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Steve Simms

Truth telling (not my truth or your truth, but the real, honest truth) is the sign of freedom and courage. It’s the freedom and courage to speak and obey your conscience instead of deceptive feelings and desires. Truth aligns with … Continue reading →

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The Art of Readjusting Definitions to Reality

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Steve Simms

It’s easy to distort definitions and change the meaning of words in an attempt to justify our own opinions, desires, feelings, and behaviors. However, to do so is often a departure from reality. Spirit-led artists can help us get back … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Hide So Why Try?

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Steve Simms

If everything about you is already known in the places that matter the most, why try to hide things from anybody? That’s a lesson I learned very early in life, and that realization has caused me to be radically open … Continue reading →

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Trying to Find “the Honest Truth”

Posted on August 17, 2024 by Steve Simms

I like writing to try to encourage people to search for and find “the honest truth.” I’ve always believed in fairness (even when it goes against my own opinions, feelings, and desires). Fairness seems in short supply today, replaced by … Continue reading →

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The trait that keeps me on the straight and narrow

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Steve Simms

As long as I can remember I’ve had the belief that God knows everything about me — everything I do, everything I think, feel, and desire, and everything I say. Because of that belief I realized that if God already … Continue reading →

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Christianity goes beyond privacy

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Steve Simms

There’s nowhere to hideWhen you resideAnd continually abideIn Christ.The rising tideOf His presenceReveals all secrets. A heart exposedTo the lightOf ChristOften complainsThat His lightIs too bightAnd thus retreatsBack into the nightTo keep its secretsOut of sight. Awe causes the human … Continue reading →

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God’s everywhere. (It’s silly to try to hide.)

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Steve Simms

I know thatGod knows meAnd focusesOn me withAttentive awarenessThere’s nothingI can hideFrom Him.Even if I triedEverything’s outIn the open.He even knowsMy secret pride.Nothing can be denied.He knows what I decideBefore I choose it.He knows my every strideBefore I take it.He … Continue reading →

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Being real matters! (Being fake {like a tin man} won’t make it.)

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Steve Simms

People weren’t madeTo be like a tin guy.You know why?We have hearts to feelAnd tears to cry.Be real! When we’re hollow like a tin man, we feel empty. Be real! Jesus denounced role players and called them hypocrites. His Beatitudes … Continue reading →

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Priests & other church leaders

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Steve Simms

Being hurt by religion is sometimes the first step toward learning to listen to and follow the risen Jesus. It helps us look beyond religious leaders to Christ. The body of Christ should be an environment of radical humility, honesty, … Continue reading →

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A few things not said (like this) before . . .

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Steve Simms

The world has enough crude, mean, vulgar, profane, and disrespectful words and images. Why not say, write, or post something uplifting instead? My two favorite electronic devices are my mind and my heart. I’m addicted to scrolling through them both … Continue reading →

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